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Software’s Hidden Clockwork: A General Theory of Software Defects
Les Hatton theorizes the possibility to predict the number of defects in software systems based on the observation that such systems have properties independent of why, how or who implemented them.
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Certifying Your Car with Erlang
John Hughes explains how Quviq tests embedded ECU software for AUTOSAR compliance using QuickCheck.
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Testing Mobile Apps
Julian Harty covers various challenges and practices for testing applications for mobile devices.
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Continuous Testing in Clojure
Bill Caputo discusses adopting continuous testing for Clojure, what are the goals of such a practice, how it differs from other languages, practical considerations (tools, setup) and a demonstration.
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The Generative Generation
Aaron Bedra shows code samples for writing Clojure tests using the test.generative framework, explaining why this framework and testing are useful.
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Introducing Calabash - Automated Functional Testing for Mobile Native Apps
Karl Krukow discusses the importance of automated functional testing of native mobile applications, suggesting using Calabash –a Cucumber-like tool- and LessPainful –an online testing service-.
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Going for Speed: Testing Against Performance Expectations
Jay Harris offers tips on using unit testing to improve the performance of applications.
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Introduction to Context Specification – Behavior-Driven Development
Philip Japikse discusses and demoes doing BDD with Context Specifications, then using MSpec to transform those specification into TDD code.
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A Regression Testing Framework for Financial Time-Series Databases
Roberto Salama presents a regression testing framework built at Morgan Stanley with FitNesse, Scala, and KDB/Q, and used to run over 10,000 regression tests.
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Testing Domain-Specific Languages
Lennart Kats introduces Spoofax, a language for testing the syntax and semantics of domain-specific languages, enabling the creation of test cases using fragments of the language being tested.
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Testing, Testing, iOS
Heath Borders introduces several testing tools for iOS - OCUnit, Google Toolbox for Mac (GTM), GHUnit, UISpec, UIAutomation, OCMock – making some recommendations on which is better.
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And It All Went Horribly Wrong: Debugging Production Systems
Bryan Cantrill discusses debugging production systems using post-mortem debugging and dynamic instrumentation, with a bit of history and an introduction to useful debugging tools.
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